India, April 17 -- The Supreme Court on Thursday allowed more than 13,000 'untainted' assistant teachers, who lost their jobs in the West Bengal teacher recruitment scam, to remain in service, even as it instructed the state to issue advertisements for a fresh recruitment process by May 31. The court further ordered the completion of the entire recruitment process by December 31 this year.

The order was passed by a bench of Chief Justice of India (CJI) Sanjiv Khanna and justice Sanjay Kumar on an application moved by such teachers to continue till the end of the academic year or till the time the fresh recruitment process is completed.

"We are inclined to accept the prayer in the present application in so far as it relates to the assist...